Something lovely arrived this week! Palit Gainward's Voodoo2 & Terratec EWS64XL boxed

Also my camera ran out of power it needs to charge, that will take a moment

Alright got that all setup then thanks in advance.
Still I get Mono sound no idea where to fix this and why is the sound quality worse than 8 Bit.

my CT4390 crushes this card, so I don't know what I am missing.

Bios is like this now:



Oke here my bootup sequence:
 

No idea how I am supposed to set that up if being honest....

As for configuration utilities go..where are they?
Because none of them were installed with them 3.1 drivers, it is just the bare driver and nothing else, it's like a WDM driver kit for just the hardware and nothing else, it's very bare in that sense.

So i can download them files but no idea how to even use them, this is all kind of above my knowledge tbh, it's very hard for me to follow
If I knew that using this card was this mentally complicated and very unfriendly for use, I would of avoided it with my life, this is just not my kind of thing man.
Just wtf after the other wtf situation, no offense, but it's already nearing the wall of impossibility for me.
The card I have will be better in the hands of those that know what they are "actually" doing, but no way with me.

Anyways I'll see what i can do, but I fear I will have to let this one slide, all because it's way too damn complicated and too bloody stressful which is the opposite of fun.... and that doers not go well with my mind's liking.

Sorry man I may just place this card on the marketplace of VA or elsewhere.

oops double post

hmm I can't open that thing, it says bad command or file name heh, that isn't doing much I guess

Nevermind that


Hmm no idea what this all means tho.

soundfonts won't load because they are not.tts files.
My card has 32MB Sound font memory it seems 34816 KB so about 34MB total sound font memory, od number would of thought it came with 32 or 64MB EDO ram, unless it's 2MB on the board + 32MB EDO ram hmm probably something like that,

Well that isn't working lol

ahh right well I'll continue tomorrow now Iam vibing to 1980's pop hits with some friends in VR Chat haha

As the EWS64 XL goes my mind was like dis

More like WELL ...

whelp I been through the that site several times I tried to follow it all now I have Mono sound at startup and no sound at all if playing Midi files...
Can[t call this an improvement tbh... it's alla bit much for me tho.

This is what I have during bootup:

And here the settings I used as that guide went:

EWS64 XL Synthesizer Properties:

EWS64 XL Codex Properties:

EWS64 XL MIDI-2 Resources:


And still I have Mono sound at start up but none of my MP3's & Mdii music plays there is no sound at all.

Quote from Lotosdrache

Quote from Lotosdrache

For Windows:
- open the Windows System Properties

- go to TerraTec Audio Devices

- double-click on TerraTec EWS64 XL Synthesizer

- go to MIDI tab and setup your favorit soundfonts

- you can also take a look on the other tabs

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Once you have familiarized yourself with loading the sound fonts, go to the “Setting” tab and set the Number of Wave Play channels to a maximum of 4.

http://www.studio4all.de/htmle/main33.html#ews64inst08

Keep this tab in mind. If you have problems with the card later, you can try to increase the Wave Play buffer latency (didn't help me in any case) or set the Direct Sound option to Game Mode.

Now go back to system properties and double-click on TerraTec EWS64 XL Codec.
Set everything like here: http://www.studio4all.de/htmle/main33.html#ews64inst09

Next step and then it should sound much better.
- Go to the Windows System Control Panel
- Open the Multimedia applet (Note that I only know the German names and am guessing at the English ones. The real English ones may differ slightly).

http://www.studio4all.de/htmle/main33.html#ews64inst10

- Check if the settings are correct:
1. Audio tab: Set the EWS64XL codec as the preferred device in both cases.
2. Multimedia tab: Use EWS64XL Midi Play

- Restart your PC

I hope it sounds better now. We will discuss the different sound routings of the card later.
I'm going to make breakfast and then do the shopping for the weekend. That will take until noon.

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Reviewing this I setup as you mentioned but still mono sound at bootup but my midi music does not even play, this is confusing.
I just follow on what is being said even I have little understanding what I am doing.

EWS64 XL Multimedia Properties:

also I make as many photos as I can so you can see how things are on my end.
Even I have no idea what I am doing wrong either, it's like walking ina thick layer of mist and with no vision on what lies ahead.

And yes I have the complete card + IO Drive flat data cables + all three manuals, two CD's and a floppy disk.
It is basically the full retail package:

And here the card fully recapped by Backfire

And here in the system as of now:

So yea the entire thing is complete.

Despite all on how beautiful it looks I still have no mp3 & Midi sound out put from my speakers, only the Windows sound plays after bootup and when I run the Matrox G400 tech demo the music plays from the right speaker, so with all the work we did here it's still no normal result which I am still hoping to find, even I am already running out of possibilities.

Maybe this card is better off in the hands of those that actually know what they are doing as I have mentioned earlier it's beyond my limits of knowledge or left alone understanding.

Or maybe that is just my mind speaking abruptly

Mixed minds can it work well it should do as it is installed, I have done everything that I could understand yet i am still doubtful if this is every going to workout for me.

There are times I wish I never bought the card , because if I knew it would be this difficult I would of avoided it, so I am still willing to see what else can be done but I have many doubts.